Mattress Mack Bets $2M on +2300 New England Patriots to Win the Super Bowl
“Mattress Mack” has made some bighearted bets o'er the yesteryear few years. But the Samuel Houston businessman and noted sports wagerer made a Brobdingnagian unity just a few years ago. If it hits, he’ll paseo outside netting $46 million.
Mack, whose public figure is Jim McIngvale, placed ii wagers totaling $2 jillion on the New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl, according to theScore. He made the wagers on Thursday, the same twenty-four hours the Patriots thump capital of Georgia to win their fifth-straight game.
The bets were placed with theScore Bet, which took a $750,000 wager, and Barstool Sportsbook, where Mack placed a $1.25 1000000 bet. Both sportsbooks had the Patriots at +2300. If Bill Belichick tin guide the squad to its 7th Super Bowl championship, and so the Houston mattress stack away owner testament acquire an eight-figure return, plus the $2 zillion he bet.
Both sportsbooks are owned by William Penn National Gaming. After announcing inward August the purchase of Score Media, a Canadian-based sports media fellowship that entered the US sports betting marketplace in 2019, the ii sides unsympathetic the $2 1000000000000 deal on Oct. 21.
Mattress Mack Has Made Some Astronomical Bets
Mattress Mack became a sports betting famous person as he began making high-dollar wagers on the Sam Houston Astros to win the World Series. The bets earmark the Gallery Furniture possessor to covering promotions he runs offering customers who purchased sure mattresses precious at $3,000 or to a greater extent to let them for free people if the hometown baseball game team won the World Series.
He ran the publicity again this yr as the Astros made it backward to the World Series. He bet $2 one thousand thousand on them in June, when they had betting odds of +1000. He also made a $100,000 play with theScore Bet inward Colorado, which had +1600 betting odds on Houston at the time.
Houston made the World Series endure month, but wounding upward losing to Atlanta, which trounce the Astros inwards vi games.
The play on the Patriots is non the 1st clip Mack has gone for a squad outside of Houston. In February, he placed a nearly $3.5 billion bet on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to overcompensate the 3.5-point spreading inward Super Bowl LV. When Tom Diamond Jim Brady and the Bucs won outright, so did Mack, to the melodic line of to a greater extent than $2.7 million.
Mack is also involved in horse racing, having been the proprietor of stakes victor Runhappy. In May, Mack went to Winston Churchill Downs and wager $2.4 meg on favorite Essential Quality at the Kentucky Derby. Again, the play was tied to handle a Gallery promotion.
While the Equus caballus ran a strong race, Essential Quality never could get interior the pack and ruined fourth.
Patriots Rebounding Under Rookie QB
New England was the topper enfranchisement in the NFL for nearly two decades with Brady at field general and Belichick on the sidelines. But the Patriots took a stair backrest in conclusion harden after letting Mathew B. Brady mark with Tampa Bay. While Diamond Jim won another Super Bowl, the Pats missed the playoffs for only if the 4th clip since 2000, when Belichick took over.
Many weren’t expecting often from the Patriots this year. That’s especially since they were going with rookie Mac Inigo Jones at quarterback. AFC East air division competition Buffalo also was coming off a flavor where the Bills reached the group discussion final.
But through and through Sunday’s games, the 7-4 Patriots now sustain the league’s current longest winning streak and a one-game lede over the Bills inward the AFC East. Inigo Jones has played easily at times during the streak, including a 19-for-23 pass public presentation for 198 yards and ternion touchdowns inward a 45-7 win over Cleveland.
While they’re on a roll, the next foursome weeks will likely determine their postseason chances.
Next Sunday, the Patriots boniface the 8-3 Volunteer State Titans, who still own the AFC’s best put down despite losing to the Sam Houston Texans on Sunday. After that, they run the Bills twice inward a three-week stretch, and move to playoff contender capital of Indiana inward between.